Finishing Quotes - Page 2

• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Peace, Work, Ubuntu

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• The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

  Franz Halder

  Army, Enemy, Left

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Running, Player

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• It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, Games

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• I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

  Judith Weir

  Wonder, Deadline, Ifs

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• It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Almost Done, Painting, Easy

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• Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

  Eugene Delacroix

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• I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.

  Norbert Bisky

  Finished

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• The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

  Burton Silverman

  Effort, Energy, Way

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• The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

  Richard Schmid

  Wish, Done, Clarity

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• Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

  Robert Breault

  Painting, Obvious, Incomplete

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• While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Anxiety, Unnecessary, Sincerity

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• Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Want, Next, Quitting

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• Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Knows, Finished

  "What kind of genius are you?" by Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

  James Whistler

  Mean, Used, Ends

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

  Neil Welliver

  Painting, Bottom, Finished

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• However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Distance, Light, Details

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1850). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy”, p.72

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• Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Royal, Artistic, Process

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• I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Thinking, Finished

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• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

  Paul Gauguin

  Firsts, Details, Too Much

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

  Peter Doig

  Artist, Interesting, Different

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• When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

  Damien Hirst

  Couple, Two, Feet

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• I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

  John Updike

  Bears, Painting, Heavy

  John Updike (2006). “The Coup”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Waiting, Trying, Lifetime

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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